Polina Bakhturina, M.A.
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Janina Dillmann, M.A.
E-Mail:jdillman@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Media Cultural Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Emergency Archiving as a Technics Department of Witnessing
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schabacher
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This doctoral dissertation examines emergency archiving techniques in the context of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The focus is on the time-critical preservation of volatile digital data, which is crucial for the future historiography and investigation of war crimes. The extent to which emergency archiving as a socio-technical process enables future testimony is analyzed.
Elena Hoch, M.A.
E-Mail:ehoch@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:General and comparative literature
Dissertation title/work title:In the field of tension between multimodality and intermediality: Challenges of multimodal novels for the practice of analyzing Literature
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Irina Rajewsky
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology, Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project is dedicated to the genre of the multimodal novel, which has become particularly popular since the turn of the millennium, and prosecutes a twofold objective: On the one hand, it aims to link theoretical approaches of multimodality research with concepts of intermediality research in order to adequately capture the structures and functions of multimodal novels. At the same time, the project aims to make a contribution to basic theoretical research within multimodality and intermediality research by systematically combining both fields of research.
Maira Kathrin Kleemann, M.Ed.
E-Mail:mkleeman@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Latin Philology
Dissertation title/work title:Textual criticism and methodology: prerequisites for a new edition of the Chronicle of Fredegar
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Wilhelm Blümer
Faculty:Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, Research Unit Classical Philology, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Blümer
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The doctoral dissertation develops the prerequisites and methodology for a scientifically based new edition of the Chronicle of Fredegar. On this basis, a digital edition with translation and commentary will be created as a pilot project for selected passages. This is intended to serve as a methodological prototype for a later complete new edition of the chronicle.
Sophia Patzelt, M.A.
E-Mail:spatzelt@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art History
Dissertation title/work title:Hidden affects: Representational forms of female emotion in French genre painting of the late 19th century
Mentor at the JGU:Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gregor Wedekind
Faculty:Faculty 07: Art History
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The project examines forms of representation of female emotion in French genre painting of the second half of the 19th century. The central research question is how female emotions were visually coded, socially regulated and aesthetically controlled. The aim is to analyze the ways in which subtle gestures, postures and gaze convey emotional states without openly articulating feelings, and which social, moral and aesthetic norms determined this coding.
Caroline Schäfer, M.A.
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Doctoral field:Cultural Anthropology
Dissertation title/work title:Ethnographic perspectives on the drawing of socio-legal boundaries in the welfare state. The payment card as part of a restrictive migration regime.
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Heike Drotbohm
Faculty:Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies, Institute of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Social benefits form a central basis for social inclusion, social participation and democratic stability. At the same time, they are increasingly the subject of political disputes in which questions of belonging and state control are negotiated. Using the example of the introduction of the payment card for asylum seekers, the research project ethnographically examines how social and migration policy measures materialize in everyday life, which intended and unintended exclusions they create and how those affected navigate, negotiate and resist them. Through participant observations in civil society initiatives and advice centers as well as interviews with asylum seekers receiving benefits, activists from solidarity alliances and employees in social authorities, these hierasizing inclusions and exclusions as well as the tension between state care and control will be examined in more detail.
Anna Carolina Techmanski, M.A.
E-Mail:atechman@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:English Literature and Culture
(Working) title of the dissertation:Beauty, Imagination and Terror in the Fin de Siècle
Mentor at the JGU:Jun. professor Dr. James Dowthwaite
Department:Faculty 05: Department of English and Linguistics
Topic of the dissertation:The project is situated within the dynamic discussion of the nineteenth-century fin de siècle as a turning point in aesthetic as well as social development. It reinvestigates the concept of beauty as a disruptive, and not merely aesthetic, force that relates to a sense of terror and the place where it was conceptualized: the imagination. This thread runs through multiple generations of fin-de-siècle and modernist writers whose works highlight how aesthetic appreciation is not merely a form of excess and creativity but a way of dealing with the profound issues underlying human existence.
Sonja Bausch, M.A.
E-Mail:sobausch@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Byzantine Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Where does the cosmos end? Criticism of astrology and the limits of knowledge in Byzantium and the Ilkhanate (13th-14th century)
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Johannes Pahlitzsch
Faculty:Faculty 07: Historical Seminar; Byzantine Studies
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The project examines how Byzantium and the Islamic-Mongol Ilkhanate differentiated between legitimate and illegitimate astrology. The focus is on the tension between theoretical rejection and practical use of astrological procedures. The inconsistent use of terms in the sources shows how flexibly these boundaries were drawn. It analyzes how religious, political and scientific contexts shaped the evaluation.
Sarah Michelle Klasse, M.A.
E-Mail:sklasse@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Egyptology
Dissertation title/work title:Food Production and Supply Networks in Workers’ Settlements of Ancient Egypt and Nubia: A Digital Humanities Approach
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Kathrin Gabler
Faculty:Faculty 07: Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Institute for Ancient Studies, Egyptology
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This doctoral dissertation explores food production and distribution in workers’ settlements of Ancient Egypt and Nubia, such as Deir el-Medina and Amara West. The application of digital tools, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and methodologies such as network analyses, can be used to investigate spatial layouts and logistical infrastructures. The study aims to provide new insights on state-run provisioning systems in ancient contexts.
Sascha Küfner, M.A.
E-Mail:kuefners@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Educational Science
Dissertation title/work title:On the subjective dimension of social advancement: habitus conflict and transformation among educational climbers from non-academic backgrounds
Mentor at the JGU:Professor of Dr. Tanja Betz
Faculty:Faculty 02: Social Sciences, Media and Sport; AG General Educational Science
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Social advancement through education is a complex challenge for those affected. In addition to known hurdles such as financing and the acquisition of subject-specific content, this process is subjectively associated with feelings of alienation and betrayal towards the milieu of origin, affects such as shame in the arrival milieu and processes of de- and reconstruction of identity. My doctoral project focuses on this subjective dimension of upward mobility processes. Narrative interviews will be used to investigate the extent to which educational climbers are affected by psychosocial tensions – i.e. habitus conflicts – in the course of this movement, how they deal with them and which new forms of habitus they incorporate in the process.
Helen Marquart, M.A.
E-Mail:hmarquar@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:English Literature and Culture
Dissertation title/work title:Textiles in text/text in textiles – function, structure and materiality of textiles in literary text production
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Rainer Emig
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology, Department of English and Linguistics
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This dissertation project focuses on the representation and functionalization of textiles in literary text production. Based on the socio-political and production-aesthetic role of textiles, textiles and handicrafts will be examined with regard to their narrative and content-related potential in the novel and surveyed with regard to marginality, gender and historiography processes, among other things.
Hannah Neugebauer, M.A.
E-Mail:hneugeba@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Romance Studies/Spanish
Dissertation title/work title:Caribbean and indigenous traces in Simón Bolívar’s thinking – blueprints for a modernity of the South
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Cornelia Sieber
Faculty:Faculty 06: Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies; Spanish and Portuguese Language and Culture
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:As a member of the Creole elite, Simón Bolívar and his model of state for South America is usually still uncritically perceived as a mere imitator of Eurocentric models of state and society. In fact, however, he clearly set himself apart from his Eurocentric role models, particularly through his attitude towards slavery and his inclusive understanding of the nation, which included all South Americans regardless of their origin or skin color. This is due not least to his Caribbean-Latin American identity. As part of my doctorate, I would like to investigate Bolívar’s previously overlooked influences and examine whether traces of Caribbean, indigenous and African ways of thinking can also be found in his thinking. In this way, I also hope to refute the persistent claim that Latin America and the Caribbean have contributed nothing new to modern intellectual history.
Maren Sommer, M.A.
E-Mail:sommaren@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Media Dramaturgy
Dissertation title/work title:The multiple testimony of found footage as a documentary method
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Alexandra Schneider
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology; Film Studies/Media Dramaturgy at the Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project deals with the use of archival, private or social media material in Film. In the context of repressive politics, my thesis is that current films are dedicated to the co-authorship of filming contemporary witnesses rather than their objectification. Has the (re)use of material in times of permanent documentation of one’s own life replaced the classic conversation in front of the camera? I would like to examine the effects of this mode of operation as a documentary method on contemporary Film.
Luca Steinhauer, M.Sc.
E-Mail:lsteinha@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Business and Economics
Dissertation title/work title:Credibility of ESG reporting – An experimental analysis of cognitive information processing in the context of current regulatory frameworks and audit assurance
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Christopher Koch
Faculty:Faculty 03: Law and Economics
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This doctoral dissertation examines the conditions under which ESG reporting is perceived as credible by investors. Three experimental programs of study analyze linguistic, formal and company-related disclosure characteristics in the context of psychological information processing. The theoretical basis is provided by models such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model and Mercer’s credibility model.
 Ilkay Aydemir, M.A.
E-Mail:aydemiri@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Media Culture Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Minoritarian counter-public. An affect-theoretical examination of Semra Ertan’s poetry and its after-effects.
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Chris Tedjasukmana
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:At the center of this doctoral dissertation is the question of the critical potential of Semra Ertan’s poetry, which the author herself located in the creation of a minoritarian counter-public. In a comparative comparison with aesthetic practices that are formed in memory of the poet, the aim is to examine the extent to which Ertan’s texts can open up perspectives on new forms of collectivity. With reference to approaches from post-structuralism, queer and critical race studies, a literary-theoretical approach will be developed that can adequately evaluate the politically resistant potential of artistic works by ‘minorities’.
Christian Belzer, M.A.
E-Mail:cbelzer@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Medieval and Modern History
Dissertation title/work title:Little kings or great fathers? The governors of the French occupation zone
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Michael Kißener
Faculty:Faculty 07: Department of History, Working Group Contemporary History
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project deals with the role of the French occupying governors in the formation of the Länder and the Federal Republic from 1945 to 1955. The analysis is based on the institutional conditions, the individual biographical backgrounds and the imperial context of French occupation and German policy. The aim is to determine the extent of the governors’ freedoms and influence and how they shaped the early post-war period in the German southwest.
Antonia Görgen, M.Ed.
E-Mail:agoergen@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Medieval and Modern History
Dissertation title/work title:School. Power. Society – Guest Labor, European Integration and the Beginning of Transnational-European Affiliation(s) in West German Classrooms
Mentor at the JGU:Apl. Prof. Dr. Markus Raasch
Faculty:Faculty 07: Department of History, Working Group Contemporary History
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:With the recruitment of so-called ‘guest workers’, a process of change began in the Federal Republic of Germany that turned the country into an immigration society. At the same time, the process of European unification gained momentum. The connection and effects of these two developments on the fundamental social area of schools are largely unexplored in contemporary history. The project therefore examines the semantics, practices and experiences that shaped the everyday lives of various actors directly or indirectly involved in schools when, after 1945, a large number of migrant pupils – the “children of foreign workers” – were taught in West German schools for the first time.
Johanna Hoff, M.A.
E-Mail:johoff@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Sociology
Dissertation title/work title:Remuneration mechanisms in care appointments. A quantitative study of determinants of wage formation based on an experimental design.
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic
Faculty:Faculty 02: Social Sciences, Media and Sport; Sociology and Methods of Quantitative Social Research research unit
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project examines the remuneration mechanisms in care appointments on the basis of an innovative experimental survey design. The aim is to analyze the underlying mechanisms of action in wage formation in greater depth and to distinguish them from each other with the help of a factorial survey. In addition, the experimental design enables a valid recording of latent constructs such as attitudes, preferences or value judgments, which can also shed light on the socially ascribed value of care occupations.
Jamilah Ally Ramadhani, M.Sc.
E-Mail:
ramadjam@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:Geography
(Working) title of the dissertation:Changing Relations to the Sea: Interrogating the Effects and Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas as a Maritime Conservation Strategy on Local Communities in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Julia Verne
Department:Faculty 09: Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geography, and Geosciences
Topic of the dissertation:This research aims to examine the socio-cultural and ecological impacts of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It focuses on how MPAs affect the relationship between local communities and the sea, exploring the social conflicts and ecological outcomes. Drawing on environmental humanities and cultural geography, the study aims to better understand the human dimensions of maritime conservation strategies.
Miriam Scuderi, M.A.
E-Mail:mscuderi@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:American Studies
(Working) title of the dissertation:“Samuel Colt Made Men Equal:” Narratives and Discourse of Firearms Ownership and their Intersection with Civil Rights Struggles in Contemporary America
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Axel Schäfer
Department:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology
Topic of the dissertation:This research aims to examine the intersection of American gun culture and minority experiences, analyzing historical and contemporary narratives, the dual roles of firearms as tools of empowerment and oppression, and the growing influence of online communities in reshaping the cultural and political dimensions of firearms through an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses oral history, cultural studies, and media analysis.
Zoë Wydra, M.A.
E-Mail:zwydra@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:American Studies (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) and English Literary Studies (Georgia State University)
Dissertation title/work title:Black Don’t Crack: Black Women’s Contemporary Life|style Writing
Mentor at the JGU:Professor Dr. Alfred Hornung
Faculty:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology; cooperative doctorate with
Georgia State University in Atlanta (USA)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In resistance to a history of unrecorded Black women’s lives, African American women today combine multiple media to ensure that their own lives are documented and will be known in the future. This doctoral dissertation will examine the many forms contemporary autobiographical writing by Black women may take, and how, especially, the mixture of different media can create continuity.
Heghine Barseghyan, M.A.
E-Mail:barseghh@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:Intercultural Communication
(Working) title of the dissertation:Language Policy in the Caucasus from the Late 1910s to the End of 1930s: The Cases of Armenia and Dagestan
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Mischa Gabowitsch
Department:Department 06: Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Topic of the dissertation:This research aims to examine language policy implementation in the Caucasus, focusing on Armenians and Dagestanis from the late 1910s to the end of the 1930s. Using a bottom-up approach, the study will explore the socio-cultural dynamics and grassroots reactions that shaped the enactment and enforcement of these policies beyond formal decrees and legislation. Furthermore, drawing on comparative analysis, the research seeks to discern patterns of convergence or divergence in language policies and their outcomes between the two cases.
Justus Heeks, M.A.
E-Mail:jheeks@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Sociology
Dissertation title/work title:The Materiality of Society
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Sascha Dickel
Faculty:Faculty 02 – Social Sciences, Media and Sport; Media Sociology and Social Theory
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation is dedicated to the further development of sociological theories on society and materiality. The aim is to understand materiality and materialization processes in the context of their social and societal embedding. In order to better address current challenges such as the Anthropocene and digitalization, different theories are compared and possibilities for a productive synthesis are sought.
Ömer Hekim, M.A.
E-Mail:
ohekim@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:Turkic Linguistics
(Working) title of the dissertation:Language Contact in Heritage Uyghur
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Julian Rentzsch
Department:Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology, Turkology
Topic of the dissertation:The aim of my doctoral project is to identify the contact phenomena of heritage Uyghur spoken in Western Europe and Turkey contexts with a particular focus on the analysis of code-copying patterns of Uyghur-German and Uyghur-Turkish. Furthermore, I will investigate the fundamental linguistic and social factors behind morphologic, syntactic, and semantic changes observed in spoken heritage Uyghur.
Inke Klabunde, M.A.
E-Mail:
klabundi@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:American Studies
Dissertation title/work title:From Politics to Aesthetics: The Interconnectedness of Genre, Gender, and Race on American Television
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee
Faculty:Faculty 05: Department of English and Linguistics- American Studies- Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My project examines the interplay of social critique and genre aesthetics in the representation of gender and race in US television and streaming. I explore how the conventions of a genre open the way for critique of social and political issues and argue that entertainment formats in particular have significant advantages in subtly conveying social critique.
Jonathan Lasi, M.Sc.
E-Mail:
jlasi@stundents.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject:Psychology
(Working) title of the dissertation:CARE – Cultivating Affect Regulation in Everyday Life
Cooperation with the college/university:Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kaurin & Prof. Dr. Theda Radtke, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Prof. Dr. Joshua Smyth, The Ohio State University, USA
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Thomas Kubiak
Department:Psychology (Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Resilience, the ability to cope with adversity, is important for maintaining well-being and reducing the likelihood of developing a depressive episode. The development and testing of a novel intervention to enhance resilience is the goal of this dissertation. To extend existing resilience training, the proposed intervention will build on recent emotion regulation research, focus on specific resilience processes, and use a personalized, just-in-time adaptive approach. A naturalistic assessment will be conducted to evaluate effectiveness and to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying resilience mechanisms and their associations with well-being and depression.
Nicolas Julian Schreckenbach, M. A.
E-Mail:nschreck@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Medieval and Modern History
Dissertation title/work title:Revolutionary Ideas and Social Issues: The Inflation Crisis of 1845/47 and its Consequences for the 1848/49 Revolution in Rhenish Hesse
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Markus Raasch
Faculty:Faculty 07: Department of History, Working Group Contemporary History
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project focuses on the prehistory of the revolutions of 1848/49 in Rheinhessen. The aim is to investigate the extent to which the inflation crisis of 1845/47 was connected to the political upheavals of the revolutionary years and what role the economic and social challenges of the crisis years – which were not least favored by extreme weather conditions – ultimately played in the context of these changes.
Anna Lea Scigliano, M.A.
E-Mail:asciglia@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art History
Dissertation title/work title:Orrore & Terribilità – Horror in the arts of the Seicento
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oy-Marra
Faculty:Faculty 07: Department of Art History
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The doctoral project aims at a coherent investigation of the artistic representation of Orrore & Terribilità in the Seicento. In addition to the relationship between the aesthetics of effect and the intellectual content of a work of art, the resonance of the contemporary viewer and, in particular, the question of the legitimization of the sometimes drastically staged moments of destructiveness will be at the center of the analysis.
Yanwei Wang, M.A
E-Mail:yawang@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Translation Studies and Intercultural German Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Sense and form and transnational magazine practices from 1949 to 1990
Mentor:in at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Eva Wiegmann
Faculty:Faculty 06: Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This dissertation project examines the transnational journal practices and the translation history of the GDR literary journal Sinn und Form. With the help of data analysis, discourse analysis and archival research, the role of translators in these practices in the context of the Cold War is examined from the perspective of translation studies and cultural sociology.
Lara Baier, M.A.
Doctoral field:Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
Dissertation title/work title:Behind bars – meaningful life in prison
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig
Faculty:Faculty 05 Philosophy, Philology, Legal Anthropology
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My doctoral project is located in the field of legal anthropology, in the working group of prison ethnography, and focuses on the perspective of imprisoned people and their subjective attributions of meaning in everyday prison life. In my empirically guided research project, I use an actor-centered approach to investigate the concrete realities of imprisoned people’s lives.
Yuxin Chen, M.A.
E-Mail:ychen06@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Translation
Faculty:Translation, Languages and Culture (FTSK); Working Group General and Applied Linguistics and Translation Technology (ASTT)
Working title:Legal translations German-Chinese with the help of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Christoph Rösener
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Against the background of the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), I would like to investigate these language models and their training with a focus on training data in my dissertation project and answer the following questions: 1) How well do current systems translate with LLMs? 2) How to train an LLM for MT? 3) How can MT with LLMs be integrated into the specialized translation workflow?
Dafina Gashi, M.A.
E-Mail:gashidaf@uni-mainz.de
PhD Subject:Anthropology
Doctoral dissertation title / work title:Exploring the Interplay Between Movement, Neoliberalism, and Gender in Kosovo.
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Čarna Brković
Doctoral dissertation topic:The project aims to explore links between movement, migration, open borders and perceptions among women in Kosovo in the light of the possible changes in the political landscape, namely the liberalization of the Visa towards Europe. The focus will be on women’s future-making practices and imaginaries and how these are influenced and may differ due to the changes planned to be implemented in the movement policy.
Céline Harder, M.A.
E-Mail:charde01@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art History
Faculty:Faculty 07 Institute of Art History and Musicology
Dissertation title/work title:Hans von Düren and Sculpture in the Middle Rhine Region: Networks, Stylistic Issues and the Phenomenon of Small-Scale Architecture in the Second Half of the 15th Century
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In my doctoral project, I am investigating sculpture in the Middle Rhine region in the second half of the 15th century, starting with Hans von Düren. I consider both the European context and the hitherto neglected small-scale architecture. By critically revising the state of research and applying methods such as stylistic criticism and iconography, the aim is to make historical connections and cultural meanings visible and to uncover the networks between the various actors.
Franziska Kaiser, M.Ed.
E-Mail:fkaise01@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Historical sciences (contemporary history)
Dissertation title/work title:“Wat freher wor” – Dealing with the Nazi Past on a Family, Collective and Public Level from the 1950s to 1970s Using the Example of the Eifel Region
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Markus Raasch (Department of History, Working Group Contemporary History)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project focuses on the early Federal Republic in the context of its supposed success story and examines how the material and immaterial legacy of the Nazi past was dealt with in the private and public sphere in the 1950s and 1960s. The aim is to examine the formative effects of National Socialism in a period that stands for immense transformation processes in education, mobility and rural structures as well as modernization and generational ruptures. The Rhineland-Palatinate Eifel region serves as the region of investigation, which, due to its long-lasting structures and not least the deplorable state of research, proves to be a worthwhile research desideratum in order to make a contribution to West German history of remembrance.
Maria Krempl, M.Sc.
E-Mail:
makrempl@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Economics
Working title:Essays in Environmental and Behavioral Economics
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Daniel Schunk
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In my dissertation, I aim to identify the key factors influencing sustainable behavior and explore strategies to encourage climate-friendly decisions. Specifically, I will investigate the impact of future thinking, i.e., envisioning oneself in climate-change-related future scenarios, and psychological benchmarks known as reference points on decision-making in environmental contexts.
Kristina Schneider, M.A.
E-Mail:krissi.schneider1@gmx.de
Doctoral field:English Literature and Culture or Book Studies with an Interdisciplinary Focus on Humanities and Cultural Studies
Faculty:Book Studies with an interdisciplinary focus on Humanities and Cultural Studies with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer (Faculty 07) and Dr. Federico Pianzola (Groningen)
Dissertation title/work title:Trend Recognition of Factors for the Popularity of Original Works for the Creation of Fanfiction with the Help of AI-Supported Methods and Machine Learning – Automatic Archetypes and Trope Recognition
Cooperative doctorate with the higher education institution/university:University of Groningen – Netherlands
Golem Project (Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models)
Dr. Federico Pianzola & Dr. Franziska Pannach
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Based on the assumption that the use of specific archetypes and “tropes” (= recurring themes) is the reason why original literary works are adapted more often than average within the fanfiction community, an archetype recognition pipeline is being programmed using machine learning and AI to identify fixed and dynamic archetypes in original literary works and the corresponding fanfiction stories. This makes it possible for the first time to automatically filter out and analyze archetypes from texts.
Thi Thinh Nguyen, Th.M.
E-Mail:thinhngu@uni-mainz.de
PhD Subject:Intercultural Theology/Religious Studies
Title of the dissertation:Vietnamese Theology in Re/construction – Learning from Doing Contextual Theology in Asia
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Küster
Doctoral thesis topic:The dissertation focuses on studying the specific context of Vietnam as well as the invaluable experiences of doing theologies in Asian countries such as Taiwan, Korea, China that are having the same issues. Vietnam is facing today poverty, social injustice, environmental crisis, idolatry, and secularism in the similar situation of Han-impacted cultures and the multi-religious state. The research aims to find the methodologies for doing theologies in Vietnamese context.
Fabian Welsch, first state examination
E-Mail:welschfa@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Political science
Dissertation title/work title:The Connection Between Civic Education at School and Work Orientation – Perspectives of Students in Dual Vocational Training and the Transition System
Mentor and supervisor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pohl
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The planned dissertation project deals with civic education at vocational schools. Using qualitative guided interviews with vocational school students and students in the transition system, the methodology of Grounded Theory (GTM) will be used to investigate what meaning adolescents and young adults give to political education and political education in this challenging phase of life and what conditions are relevant for political learning and educational processes. Based on the empirical results, Peter Weinbrenner’s approach to work- and career-related political education (1987) will be further developed conceptually and with a view to the current transformations in the world of work.
Granaz Baloch, M.Phil.
Contact:bagranaz@uni-mainz.de | https://linktr.ee/granazbaloch
Doctoral Subject:Human Geography
Working Title:Gendered Narratives in Pakistani Media Coverage of Disasters
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Veronika Cummings
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This research project examines media representations of climate-related disasters in Pakistan between 2000-2022 to understand how they reinforce or challenge traditional gender norms, roles, and stereotypes, while also investigating their impact on public perceptions of women’s roles and capabilities in climate change action and disaster management, aiming to promote gender equality and more inclusive climate action.
Nadja Colucci (née Schulz), M.A.
E-Mail:nschulz@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Classical Archaeology
Dissertation title/work title:Investigations into Cultural Contacts in Lower Italy Using the Example of Timpone della Motta. Reconstruction of Local, Regional and Supra-Regional Networks on the Basis of Archaeological Finds and Features
Subject/research unit:Classical Archaeology, IAW, Faculty 07
Supervisor; Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Heide Frielinghaus
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The aim of my project is to investigate the different levels, effects and specifics of cultural contacts associated with various aspects in a micro-region (Timpone della Motta), which is characterized by the changing coexistence of diverse Greek and Italic communities as well as by local, regional and supra-regional networks. Part of this is to be a small-scale, differentiated classification and definition of the various forms of cultural contact based on local findings, in order to make these differentiated and concretely comprehensible.
Martin Hanisch, M.Ed.
E-Mail:mhanisch@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Early Modern History (Faculty 07, History Seminar)
Dissertation title/work title:“The Führer has called where it is necessary to die; we are his sword and shield at the steps of his empire.” The Palatinate Schutzstaffel (SS) and the National Socialist “Volksgemeinschaft”
Supervisor; Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Markus Raasch
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In order to shed light on the work of the SS in a specific regional area, my research project examines the role the Schutzstaffel played for the so-called “Volksgemeinschaft” in the Palatinate: How did it attempt to inspire Germans for National Socialism by organizing its own sports, music and cultural events, for example, and to what extent did it contribute to inclusion in the “Volksgemeinschaft”? Conversely, what role did it also play in the exclusion and persecution of “community outsiders” who were not supposed to be part of Nazi society?
Waldemar Isak, M.A.
E-Mail:isakwald@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Media Cultural Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Queer Dermatologies in Contemporary Body Essays
Supervisor; Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Chris Tedjasukmana
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Based on Paul B. Preciado’s concept of “political dermatology”, my dissertation project deals with contemporary ways of expressing and writing about the body from the point of view of “skininess”. In the investigation of ‘body essays’, the question of what role skin currently plays in the articulation of sensibility and corporeality will be explored in particular. The poetically and aesthetically generated attentions to the skin, which are unfolded in the objects of investigation, are to be conceptualized as political and queer dermatologies, insofar as they expand the space of possibilities of how body concepts and relationships can be written and articulated.
Katharina Wende (née Moos), M.Ed.
E-Mail:kamoos@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Music Theory
Dissertation title/work title:Analysis and Reproduction of Individual Compositional Styles Using Computer-Aided Analysis of Chord Types and Melodic Motifs
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Immanuel Ott
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In my dissertation, I examine the chord type structures in modal compositions of the Renaissance and differentiate between personal styles and cross-composer features within individual modes. Methodologically, computer-assisted corpus analysis is used to provide an insight into Renaissance compositional practice by statistical means.
David Prinz, Mag.Theol.
E-Mail:prinzdav@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral Subject:Protestant Theology
Faculty:New Testament Studies, Faculty of Protestant Theology (Faculty 01)
Title of the doctoral dissertation:Paul, the Missionary? Exegesis, Colonialism and the New Testament
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Esther Kobel Mouttet
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My research project seeks to examine the conception of Paul as a missionary through the lens of postcolonial thought. I intend to analyze the reception history of Paul as well as the concept history of the term “mission” and compare the results to New Testament accounts on the nature of Paul’s activity. The goal is to assess whether the common identification of Paul as a missionary is conducive or detrimental to a proper understanding of the Paul’s activity, bearing in mind the massive impact of colonialism on the modern understanding of the term “mission”.
Lena Scheibinger, M.A.
E-Mail:lscheibi@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Cultural Anthropology
Dissertation title/work title:Collected Relationships. Transcultural Reconnection of a (Post-)Colonial Collection and Archive from the Congolese Rainforest
Faculty:Faculty 07, History and Cultural Studies
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Based on a partial inventory of the Ethnographic Study Collection Mainz, which the ethnologist Erika Sulzmann acquired over the course of around 30 years in the equatorial rainforest of today’s DR Congo on the basis of the “Mainz Congo Expedition” (1951-1954), my research project tests practices of decolonial collection work and dialogical knowledge production. Within the framework of a collaborative re-interrogation, a multi-perspective understanding of the contents and future of this object diaspora, which is provided with comprehensive documentation, is to take place together with people and institutions in the country of origin.
Alassane Traore, M.A.
E-Mail:traoreal@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Translation Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Machine and Human German Translation of Literary Works by African Authors: Analyzing the Formal-Aesthetic Dimension
Faculty:Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Michael Schreiber
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In the context of the exponential development of artificial intelligence, I take a contrastive look at machine translation (MT) and the mostly criticized human translation (HTR) of literary works by African authors. In doing so, I explore the problem of the extent to which the literary creativity of African authors is taken into account in MT (with and without post-editing) and in OT in order to discuss the current capabilities of MT in this area.
Naomi Carla Beutler, M.Ed.
E-Mail:nbeutler@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:History and Cultural Studies (Faculty 07), History Seminar
Research unit:Late medieval history and comparative regional history
Dissertation title/work title:Between Protectionism and Free Trade Agreements – the Pound Duty Exemptions in the German Empire from 1266 to 1802
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Nina Gallion
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The planned dissertation project deals with the urban exemption from customs duties, or pound duties, which can be found in many parts of the German Empire from the middle of the 13th century as part of a partly ceremonial handing out of gifts. A particularly specific feature was the liberation of an entire city population, as was carried out in Frankfurt in particular until 1802, where it was given the name “Pfeifergericht” (piper court) due to the musical accompaniment. The dissertation begins with a study of the cities in which this custom was practised, before focusing on the ritual elements using the approach of modern ritual history . The doctoral dissertation focuses on researching the functions of the ceremony and the ritual elements.
David Johannes Braun, M.A.
E-Mail:dbraun04@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Early Modern History
Subject/research unit:Faculty 07 History Department Working Group Modern History
Dissertation title/work title:Sports and Fighting Games at Imperial Assemblies as an Element of Habsburg Imperial Policy in the 16th Century (ongoing)
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Schnettger
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:As a means of soft power, sport and sporting events are important elements of the exercise of political power in the modern era. This insight automatically leads to the historical question of what function similar events had in the pre-modern era. The doctoral project therefore examines the function of sporting and fighting games, such as tournaments and shooting festivals, during the imperial assemblies of the 16th century in a political culture that was largely supported by the personal symbolic interaction of the actors.
Xian Chen, M.A.
E-Mail:xchen03@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Translation Studies
Dissertation title/work title:The Conceptualization of Translation in China.
The Change in Translation-Related Terms from the Time of the 礼记 (Liji, Book of Rites) to the End of the Qing Dynasty (1912)
Subject/research unit:Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK)
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Lavinia Heller
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In the course of the de-westernizing discourse in translation studies, a lively debate has developed around the reconceptualization of translation. My dissertation attempts to find alternative conceptualizations of translation and models of its practices in Chinese translation culture that have not yet been considered (Prunč 1997).
Lale Diklitas, M.A.

Anastasiia Ermolaeva, M.A.
E-Mail:eranasta@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:East European History
Dissertation title/work title:The Marriage Policy of the Muscovite Rulers: Negotiations and Actors (second half of the 15th and the16th century).
Subject/research unit:Historical seminar
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Jan Kusber
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The work examines the marriage policy of the Grand Dukes of Moscow in the second half of the 15th and the16th century as a whole, as well as the stages of the implementation of each individual marriage in a diachronic perspective. The planned study will address the following questions: How did the marriage policy of the Moscow court change over time and what criteria were used to select candidates?
Maryna Grytsai, M.A.
E-Mail:mgrytsai@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject: Media Studies (media science)
Working title of the dissertation:Can the Transnational Public Sphere Contribute to Better Media Coverage of Conflict and War?
Department:School of Journalism, JGU
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Katja Schupp
Topic:In my doctoral dissertation project I am exploring the role of the media in conflict and war at the example of selected media coverage of the Russian war in Ukraine. I combine theoretical approaches of conflict and peace theories, conflict coverage and communication theories (framing theory, transnational public sphere theory) with the content analysis of selected media coverage, particularly one related to cultural diplomacy practice. I want to investigate whether the media can contribute to the creation of a transnational public sphere and thus – to a better coverage of conflict, crisis and war.
Lara-Luisa Hauzel, Mag. theol.
E-Mail:lhauzel@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Protestant Theology
Dissertation title/work title:quomodo de hoc saeculo ad caelum migrasset. The Obitus Isidori in the Tradition of Western Hagiography
Subject/research unit:Faculty 01, subject Ecclesiastical History, focus on patristics/ancient church
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Ulrich Volp
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In my dissertation project, I would like to examine central aspects of exemplary dying on the basis of death scenes in the vitae of saints and in this way profile the genesis and characteristics of the late antique ideal of holiness. The basis of my analysis will be the Obitus Beatissimi Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi, the death account of Isidore of Seville, which has so far received little attention in research.
Wartan Hofsepjan

Yasamin Khalighi, M.A.
E-Mail:ykhaligh@students.uni-mainz.de
yakhalig@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral Subject: American Studies
Faculty:Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Faculty 05 Philosophy and Philology, JGU
Title of the doctoral dissertation:Towards a Utopian Realism: Life Politics in Independent Climate Change Closed Stacks
Supervisor of the doctoral dissertation:Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Topic of the dissertation:In my doctoral dissertation, I intend to study independent climate change magazines as intelligentsias, trying to show how these magazines, both textually and visually, draw their audience’s attention to the current environmental crises, engage and make them part of the solution. I classify this action under the concept of “environmental citizenship.” Close reading of independent climate change magazines based on “ecocriticism” will explain how these magazines, through visual and narrative storytelling, represent humans and nonhumans, and make the reader committed to and show empathy toward them. In my dissertation project, “life politics” theory assumes utmost significance for an understanding of how independent climate change magazines contribute to the agency of their audience.
Janika Kunzmann, M.A.
E-Mail:jakunzma@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:African Linguistics
Dissertation title/work title:A Grammar of Mbum, an Adamawa Language of Northern Cameroon
Subject/research unit:Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In the course of my dissertation, I want to develop a comprehensive and up-to-date grammar of the Adamawa language Mbum spoken in northern Cameroon. Like many African languages, Mbum has only been documented and analyzed to a certain extent, particularly with regard to its phonological properties. My descriptive-linguistic study of Mbum should contribute to a more precise classification and enable a linguistic-theoretical and comparative examination of the Adamawa language.
Hoda Bourenane, first state examination in law and LL.M.
E-Mail:hobouren@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Mainz School of Law
Dissertation title/work title:The Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in the Light of International Humanitarian Law
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Friederike Wapler
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The use of machine systems equipped with artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly relevant in our everyday lives. An important aspect of this is the increasing automation in the use of autonomous military technologies. The dissertation project deals with the legally compliant use of such lethal weapon systems against the background of the regulations of international humanitarian law and the importance of human dignity in conflict situations.
Ipek Bozkaya, M.A.
E-Mail:ibozkaya@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Turkic Literature
Dissertation title/work title:Homoerotic Literary Representations in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Literature
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Petr Kucera
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This project will follow the marginalized homoerotic discourse (Ze’evi, 2006) as the constitutive element of heteronormativity in literary texts written in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. In this landscape, where heterosexuality is now violently normative by the middle of the twentieth century, literary texts as a space where same-sex erotic relations are reflected (Schick, 1999) will be analyzed in the context of showing sexual practices before heteronormativity.
Fereshteh Farshad, M.A.
E-Mail:ffarshad@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Theater Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Performativity-Theoretical Approaches to Forms of ‘Female’ Theatricality in Iran
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Julia Stenzel
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project deals with female representations as traditional performance formats in Iran, which were performed in the context of special celebrations and circles of women. They were popular before the Islamic Revolution and deal with the problems of women in a patriarchal society. Instead of dismissing these performative formats as mere folklore, the planned dissertation considers them as performative questioning and problematization of the reality of female life in Iran.
Jonas Andreas Grahl, M.A.
E-Mail:jgrahl@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art History
Working title:Ludwig Goerz. An Artist-Architect Between the Weimar Republic and Post-War Modernism
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller (supervisor of the doctoral dissertation and mentor); Faculty 07
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project is dedicated to the architect-artist Ludwig Goerz and his work in the field of tension between architectural and visual art. As a representative of a “moderate” modernism, he is responsible for buildings that shape the cityscape, primarily from the post-war decades, whose differentiated analysis has so far been lacking. Goerz’s visual art practice reveals a retrospective examination of building practice, which is expressed in expressionist architectural and urban depictions and testifies to his interest in the symbiosis of old and new or historical and modern.
Lena Claudia Elisabeth Heine, M.Sc.
E-Mail:lena.heine@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Psychology (Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports)
Dissertation title/work title:It’s in Your Hands: Sign Augmented Communication in Language Learning
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Sign augmented communication has successfully been applied to foster linguistic and communicative skills in children with autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, SLI and intellectual disabilities. As a consequence of the UN Charter on inclusion, an increasing number of German daycares have inclusive concepts and employ sign augmented communication as a mean to ease communication, not only with children with special needs but also with typically developing children. The intended project aims to study children’s recruitment of speech accompanying gestures in language learning by conducting an intervention study with preschoolers.
Laura Henke, Mag. theol.
E-Mail:lhenke01@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Theology
Dissertation title/work title:Changing Times. Transformation Processes of the Concept of Salvation History in the Lucan Double Work.
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Konrad Huber; Faculty 01
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The project deals with the representation of epochal transitions in the context of the Lucan double work. The transitions between the epochs traditionally referred to in exegesis as the “time of the law”, the “time of Jesus” and the “time of the church” will be investigated using historical-critical and narratological methods to determine how the characterization of actions, spaces, time references and actants change in the course of Luke’s double work, where lines of continuity or upheavals are perceptible and how these are represented in literature.
Sait Can Kutsal, M.A.

Nils Meyn, M.A.
E-Mail:meynnils@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Film and Media Studies
Dissertation title/work title:The Collection of the Gay Museum as an Archive of Queer Video Practices
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel, Faculty of Film Studies/Media Dramaturgy
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Using the example of the film collection in the Gay Museum in Berlin, the doctoral dissertation examines the role of the video cassette in queer everyday and movement cultures. Among other things, the focus is on a collection of HIV/AIDS-related video recordings donated to the museum by Deutsche Aidshilfe, as well as pirated copies of feature films, documentaries and porn films made by passionate private collectors. The core stock of the queer film collection includes not only film works, their content and their carrier material, but also knowledge about practices of recording, collecting, copying and compiling with the video format. The doctoral dissertation therefore examines the forms and driving forces behind the archival video practices of queer activists and fans, as well as the institutional archival practices of the museum. Using format and affect theories, it traces the relevance of home video, amateur film and pornography for queer film historiography in Germany.
Nhu Y Linda Nguyen, M.Ed.
E-Mail:nnhuylin@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Didactics of Art
Dissertation title/work title:Resisting and Collectively Remembering in Critical Art Education – A Practice-Based Study of Postmigrant Memory and Mediation Practices at the Interface of Education and Arts
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Carmen Mörsch
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Social science research under the theoretical analytical framework of the post-migrant has only become established in Germany in the last 10 years. The prefix “post” does not stand for the end of migration, but describes social negotiation processes that take place in the phase after migration. These negotiation processes also include the question of a multifaceted culture of remembrance. The following dissertation project attempts – with theoretical reference to various disciplines such as media studies, critical theory, post/decolonial theory, (post-)migration research, art and memory education – to develop a set of tools for critical art education/mediation that is confronted with the pedagogical challenges of an inclusive, post-migrant society.
Tobias Roth, M.A.

Lucy Bamforth, M.Sc.
E-Mail:bamfortl@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Psychology
Faculty/research unit:Faculty of Social Sciences, Media, and Sports
Dissertation title/work title:Examining the Impact of Stress on Prospective Memory in Individuals Living in Communities Affected by Humanitarian Crises
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Anne Mareike Altgassen
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Prospective memory is an important cognitive function that is vulnerable to stress. However, research on the relationship between stress and prospective memory has focused overwhelmingly on European or North American populations. Using questionnaires, lab-based tasks, and naturalistic assessments, this PhD will examine the impact of stress on prospective memory in three populations affected by humanitarian crises, with a control population in Germany.
Patrick Henn, M.Ed.
E-Mail:phenn@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Early Modern History
Faculty/research unit:Department of History – Working Group Modern History
Dissertation title/work title:Guardianship Around 1800: Female Rulers of Small German States Between the Ancien Régime and the Restoration
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Schnettger
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project examines the extent to which the political and social upheavals in the decades around 1800 affected the rule of female guardian rulers of small German states. The regency of Juliane zu Schaumburg-Lippe (reigned 1787-1799) and Pauline zur Lippe (reigned 1802-1820) are examined comparatively. From an actor-centered perspective, the dissertation examines the female regents as decision-makers within their governments and as foreign policy actors. The dissertation project thus contributes to clarifying the question of the extent to which the upheavals around 1800 influenced the social position and scope for action of women.
Freya Luberg, M.A.
E-Mail:fgahlerl@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Cultural Anthropology
Faculty:Philology and Philosophy
Dissertation title/work title:No time. Pflegerischer Alltag in ökonomisierten Krankenhäusern
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:A cultural-anthropological examination of the everyday working life of nurses in German hospitals is planned. Through a qualitative-empirical study, subjective realities are to be depicted from multiple perspectives and in this way make a differentiated and productive contribution to the current public debate. This work aims to raise awareness of the situation of nurses and give them a voice so that we can learn from them: “In anthropology we are not studying people in order to analyze them, to make them into objects of inquiry; we are studying with people in order to learn from them in such a way that together we can try and forge a way of living for generations to come.” (Tim Ingold 2020)
Patrick Minkus, M.A.
E-Mail:pminkus@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:(Medieval) History
Research unit:History and Cultural Studies (Faculty 07), Department of History, Working Group Medieval History
Dissertation title/work title:Penitential Books and Carolingian Renovatio – Between Reform Concerns and Implementation
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Professor Dr. Ludger Körntgen
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The planned dissertation project aims to investigate the ecclesiastical-literary genre of penitential books and their transformation in the course of the Carolingian Renovatio. The project will focus in particular on the question of the actual conformity of the so-called Carolingian reform penitential books produced during this phase to the reform. On the basis of conciliar jurisprudence, the main points of criticism and objectives of the reform circles will therefore first be highlighted in order to then examine the implementation of these concerns within the paenitentialia themselves and to identify the causes of the discrepancy between the theoretical demands for reform and their practical implementation.
Aurora A. Sauter, M.A.
E-Mail:ausauter@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Sociology
Dissertation title/work title:Bulky Bodies and Their Persons: A Study of Types of Bodily Unavailability
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Dr. Tobias Boll
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In everyday life and in various sociological theories, the assumption of a unity of person and body can be observed. However, problem-free embodiment is an assumption that needs to be explored as a practical production, which is best examined in those cases in which this self-evident production is called into question: ‘failing bodies’ elude control, they interrupt routines and practices, but are also turned into failing bodies by social norms. In other words, the body becomes unavailable to the person in certain situations. I will make this situational unavailability of their body for a person the empirical object of investigation of my dissertation and from this perspective I will devote myself to the person-body relationship.
Theresa Siebach, M.A.
E-Mail:siebacht@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Media Cultural Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Self-Care in the Field of Tension Between Time-Diagnostic Pathologization and Caring Practice
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Chris Tedjasukmana; Faculty 05
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project aims to take a cultural-analytical perspective on the practices of self-care that currently operate under the term “mindfulness”.
The focus will be on the reciprocal implication relationship between (digital) self-care concepts and current diagnoses of the times, which is illustrated in particular by social pathologizations of a digitally shaped (surrounding) world.
Claudio Soltmann, M.A.
Email:csoltman@uni-mainz.de
Subject:Historical Translation Studies
Working Title:Translating Curiosity: British and German Scientific Travel Writing on South America (1805-1865).
Mentor at the JGU:Prof. Dr. Alison E. Martin
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Using travel accounts written in and circulated between English and German language areas, this project investigates the development of scientific knowledge about South America, between 1805 and 1865. How did natural scientific knowledge of the South American regions circulate in British and German circles and thus reciprocally enhance knowledge-making? How did translators influence the circulation of knowledge on South America by tailoring it to a particular (national) audience, styling it for a particular class or gender of reader, or injecting their own scientific insights into the translations they produced?
Alexandra Jasmin Ditscher, M.A.
E-Mail:aditsche@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Educational sciences
Dissertation title/work title:Postcolonial Theory of Racism and Critical Theory of Anti-Semitism – A Critical Definition of the Relationship
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Julia König
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Due to the different perspectives, racism and anti-Semitism are rarely consistently considered together in both theoretical directions and at the same time their respective particular modes of action are recognized. In my dissertation project, I would like to take the political and intellectual concerns of postcolonial critique seriously on the one hand and adopt a critical perspective on the other. Drawing on older critical theory and current research on anti-Semitism, I would like to show that anti-Semitism is already systematically embedded in postcolonial theory as a blind spot. Although the work is strongly theoretically oriented, concrete examples from the history of the movement will be included and a connection to political education will be worked out.
Silvia Enow

Andreas Hartmann, M.A.
E-Mail:ahartm@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Romance Philology
Dissertation title/work title:Island Worlds, Island Spaces, Island Dreams in the French-Language Literature of Oceania
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Véronique Porra
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project deals with the spatial anchoring of the island as a place of writing with an identity-forming function in the texts of French-language literature in Oceania, especially in the overseas territories of France, French Polynesia and New Caledonia. With the help of a decolonial and spatial-theoretical approach, it will be possible to work out the linguistic translation of these spatial aspects of archipelagos that emphasize the independence of Oceanian literatures.
Inge Heinemann, M.Ed. (née Mayer)
E-Mail:i.heinemann@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:German Studies
Dissertation title/work title:The Revival of the Distich in German Literature around 1800
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Ulrich Breuer
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:This work on Modern German Literature, which also incorporates Classical Philology in an interdisciplinary manner, uses structural analyses of the distich and a comparison of the poems on a formal and thematic level to determine the principles, scope and objectives of the re-use of this ancient verse form in German literature around 1800.
Qi Huang, M.A.
E-mail:qihuang@students.uni-mainz.de
PhD Subject:English and Linguistics, Language Typology
Doctoral dissertation title / work title:Grammaticalization of Numeral Classifiers in Southern Sinitic Languages
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang
Doctoral dissertation topic:My dissertation project is a corpus-based study combined with fieldwork on numeral classifiers in Southern Sinitic languages (Hakka, Min and Cantonese). It aims to present a descriptive and analytic account of the functions of numeral classifiers in these languages and create an improved model of the development of classifier systems by investigating possible grammaticalization pathways.
Leonie Matt, M.A.
E-Mail:leonmatt@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art History
Dissertation title/work title:The Garden as a Stage – the Stage as a Garden. Theatrical and Media Productions of Gardens at the Dresden Court of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The focus of my research project is the investigation of the network of relationships between the design and visual media representation of early modern gardens and music theater productions that were performed on festive occasions in the gardens of the Electoral Saxon court in the 17th and 18th centuries. Of interest here are both the stage-like conception, theatrical design and use of the gardens and, conversely, the scenographic and content-related significance of gardens on stage and their visual representation. The project is part of the interdisciplinary DFG project “Garden and music theater at the Dresden court of the 17th and 18th centuries: Medial and functional interrelationships in the service of stately metaphor and princely representation”.
Roman Paul Widera

Fangyi Chen, M.A.
E-Mail:fachen@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Translation Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Community Interpreting with Google Translate? On the Use of Translation Technologies in Doctor-Patient Communication
Research unit:Intercultural Communication (Faculty 06)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Community interpreting is interpreting in the social, health and legal fields, which strongly affects the lives of many people with a history of migration or immigration. The aim of the dissertation is to examine, from the perspective of translation studies, whether it is possible to use Google Translate for interpreting in doctor-patient communication.
Latifa Hahn, M.A.
E-Mail:latifa.hahn@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Educational Science
Dissertation title/work title:About Visitations. An Intersectional and Hauntological Analysis of the Significance of Biography and the Positioning of Social Pedagogy in Programs of Study and Practice.
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Alexandra Klein
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:As part of my doctoral project, I would like to use interviews with social work students and practitioners to find out to what extent it is possible to make one’s own experiences of violence and trauma visible and discussable within the course of study, and how this experiential knowledge can be applied in social pedagogical practice. With the help of Derrida’s concept of hautology (1993), we will examine how biographical experiences are actualized in the present.
Carolin Magdalena Jesussek, M.Ed.
E-Mail:cjesusse@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:American Studies
Dissertation title/work title:Gothic Materialism: Agency and Ecology in Twenty-First-Century Life Writing and Fiction
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding, Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My research focuses on contemporary North American Gothic fiction and life writing of the twenty-first century. I examine how the traditionally exclusionary Gothic mode is appropriated by marginalized groups as a strategy of inclusion by taking a close look at the significance of the material world in the texts. Therefore, I propose a new reading of what I call “Gothic Materialism” to analyze the renegotiation of the boundaries of the liminal spaces that othered groups have been designated to.
Nadine Müller, M.A.
E-Mail:nadimuel@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Romance Studies/Spanish
Dissertation title/work title:Interpreting in Indigenous Languages in the Public Sector in Mexico
Faculty/research unit:Faculty 06 – Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Working Group for Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics and Translation Studies (SPST)
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The dissertation project deals with the new and hitherto little-researched field of court interpreting in indigenous languages in the Mexican context. A video corpus of authentic court hearings serves as data material for the project, which is to be analyzed using methods of ethnomethodological conversation analysis in order to systematically investigate the dynamics of interaction and the (linguistic) actions of the actors involved as well as underlying (language) ideologies.
Anjuli Isabel Rotter, M.A.
E-Mail:anjurott@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Cultural Anthropology
Dissertation title/work title:O Swing da Bahia – Of Cowboys and Afro-Brazilian Music
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Markus Verne
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project deals with identity constructions in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The state’s baianidade , which is essentially characterized by its African heritage and Afro-Brazilian practices, focuses primarily on the coastal region and the capital Salvador. An image that is far less considered in this narrative, but nevertheless popular, can be found in the interior, the sertão: here it is the cabocos, a population of Portuguese and indigenous descent, who stand for this region. Using music as a magnifying glass, I examine the processes of these identity constructions and their relationship to each other and ask about the lifeworlds that are thematized, imagined and constructed in and through music.
Alesia Estela Vallenas Coronel, StEx.

Nina-Marie Zynda, M.Ed.
E-Mail:nzynda@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Latin
Dissertation title/work title:From Bishop to Bishop. The Work of St. Martin by Gregory of Tours
Research unit:Department of History and Cultural Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, working group Classical Philology, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Blümer
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Professor Dr. Wilhelm Blümer
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:By combining edition, stylistic analysis and interpretation, the dissertation aims to provide an introduction to the work on St. Martin written by one of his episcopal successors, Gregory of Tours, in the 6th century. Despite the importance of this work for history, theology, philosophy and classical philology, no such introduction has yet been published.
Marco Büttner, M.Ed.
E-Mail:mabuettn@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Medieval History
Dissertation title/work title:Justice as a Conceptual Resource of Legitimacy in the Propaganda of the Crusades
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Professor Dr. Ludger Körntgen
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The planned work aims to critically examine and substantiate the significance of the “Just War” theory for the crusade movement on the basis of the “propaganda material” of the first three crusades and to determine its significance in comparison to other motives and legitimization strategies more precisely. Among other things, this is linked to questions about the conceptualization of the respective warring parties. What idea of the non-Christian opponent is conveyed by a war propagated as just or even holy and what image of the armed pilgrims is contrasted with this? To what extent is there still an attempt to legitimize crusades as just wars in the sense of Augustine and in what way is justice functionalized as a propagandistic tool?
Benjamin Doubali, M.A.
E-Mail:bedoubal@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Sociology
Dissertation title/work title:Interfaces and the formalization of implicit knowledge using the example of Industry 4.0
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Sascha Dickel
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My dissertation project is dedicated to the redefinition of human-technology relationships in relation to the transfer and application of incorporated knowledge stocks. In an empirical examination of the development processes of industrial plants, I investigate cases in which such knowledge stocks are formalized and made available for further digital processing. Conceptually, with a focus on the phenomenon of digital interfaces, I would like to bring media and communication theory considerations into view. What contribution do interfaces make with regard to the formalization of the mediation, appropriation and use of professional implicit knowledge? Where do we learn something about how interfaces contribute to transforming, organizing and formalizing knowledge?
Vanessa Franke, M.A.
E-Mail:vfranke@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Comparative Literature / Études germaniques
Dissertation title/work title:Body – Body – Borders in Globalization Narratives
Cooperative doctorate:Binational doctorate with the Université Paris 8, France (co-tutelle de thèse in preparation)
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:PD Dr. Sascha Seiler, Stefanie Buchenau (Maître de conférences)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In my dissertation project, I would like to explore the role of the body in literary and cinematic narratives of globalization. The analysis of contemporary texts in different languages raises, among other things, the question of a poetics of globalization, which, as a structural change and meta-narrative, is characterized above all by cross-border dynamics. The focus on the body as a motif brings into view the physical experience of these dynamics as well as the content-related and formal processing of a field of tension between ‘disembodiment’ as a social diagnosis and human corporeality.
Larissa Frömel, M.Ed.
E-Mail:lfroemel@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Art-related theory
Dissertation title/work title:Stefan Zweig and the Arts: Pathos Configurations around 1900
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Linda Hentschel, Prof. Dr. Andreas Solbach (emeritus)
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Research has already established Stefan Zweig’s lifelong preoccupation with genius, but the circumstances under which this fascination developed have not been determined. It is assumed that the pathos formula developed by Aby Warburg (1905) is suitable for a cultural-historical discourse analysis of the pathos of genius in the “world of yesterday” and for research into Stefan Zweig’s “aesthetic socialization” due to its polyvalence.
Guoda Gediminskaite, M.A.
E-Mail:ggedimin@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral Subject:Christian Archaeology and History of Byzantine Art
Working Title:To Wage War and Prevail Against Enemies: Testimonies of the Akathistos Hymn from Venetian Crete
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Vasiliki Tsamakda
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:The primary concern of my dissertation is the complete study of sources related to the Akathistos Hymn and its visual rendering from Crete, the key area of Byzantium which was under Venetian rule from 1211 to 1669. In the research, I argue that in the island the Akathistos pictorial cycles become militant images, and they should be approached and studied as such. Methodologically, this inquiry relies on a thorough autoptic interrogation of testimonies through a combined art historical and philological investigation.
Simone Hallstein, M.A. (née Brehmer)
E-Mail:sbrehmer@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Historical science
Dissertation title/work title:Hostility Towards Jews and Media Change in the Late Middle Ages
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Nina Gallion
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Based on the thesis that the late medieval Jewish discourse can be brought into a closer connection with book printing, the question will be asked as to how such a connection developed in the first decades (ca. 1450-1520). Specifically, two interrelated questions will be pursued: Firstly, which anti-Jewish writings were disseminated by means of the new printing technology and, secondly, which argumentation strategies were chosen in these writings.
Mariana Sol Hermanowski, M.A.
E-Mail:mhermano@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:American Studies
Dissertation title/work title:The Politics of the Page: Cuban Closed Stacks and their Representations of the U.S.,
1898-1919
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:My doctoral dissertation focuses on Cuban closed stacks published between 1898 and 1919. In the context of the island’s rich print culture, my work examines images in these periodicals to retrieve their comprehensive and sometimes contradictory understanding of the political processes that occurred in Cuba caused by U.S. hegemony, as well as this country`s role in Cuba and the Imperial Archipelago while establishing connections between them.
Pawel Kazmierski, M.A.
E-Mail:pkazmier@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Interdisciplinary Studies in Theology and Religion (PhD program Faculty 01)
Dissertation title/work title:Individual religious freedom in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR and the People’s Republic of Poland: comparative analysis using the example of the regions of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Pomorze Zachodnie
Cooperative doctorate:Planned binational doctorate with a Polish university institution (Cotutelle agreement).
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Matthias Pulte
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:In the post-war period, there was a religious change in Europe, especially in the communist Eastern bloc. The communists wanted to create a “new man” who would not need the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion. Ӓ Similar legal and everyday situations of believers in the GDR’s northern districts and Polish West Pomerania could lead to very different consequences for the religiousness of the population. The differences in law and the application of the law could be partly responsible for this in ways that have not yet been investigated in detail.
Tuomo Kondie, M.A.

Marvin Leonard Martiny, M.A.
E-Mail:mmartiny@students.uni-mainz.de
Doctoral field:Linguistics
Dissertation title/work title:Future Grams in South American Indigenous Languages and their Origins
Faculty:Faculty 05, Comparative Linguistics
Supervisor; mentor at JGU:Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang
Topic of the doctoral dissertation:Future tense expressions in the languages of South America and their origin are to be researched comparatively by characterizing the future tense expressions with regard to their properties on the one hand and recording their origin and the associated properties on the other. As far as possible, the changes in properties in the course of their development will be systematically analyzed quantitatively and compared with each other.